Word Merge In .Net Console App / Winword Won't Close
Mar 14, 2012
I have a VB.Net 2008 application which creates a Winword mail merge file, then merges it into a predefined template (think form letters).Based on activities throughout the day, up to (currently) five different types of letters can be created each morning for the previous day, although not all are created every day.Working with the process on my machine, everything worked fine.When installed on a server, though, it worked once, then stopped. Using Google, I figured out that the Winword wasn't shutting down, and was staying in memory.I followed all of the advice on Google which had to do with wrdApp.Quit(),wrdApp = Nothing and GC.Collect(), even throwing in an extra wrdApp = Nothing at the very end of the app.
I am trying to create a front end to a) add records to a mysql db (without been able to view, or edit or delete) which i have working and press a magic button which sets up a word mailmerge doc so that the venue managers just have to edit the document and click send. The code I have so far for this bit is
Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click If Venue.Text = "The Old Tramshed" Then ConnectDatabase()
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The idea been, grab the email and firstname from the database. Write them to a locally stored word document which is used as the datasource for the mail merge. It opens the correct template and seems to create the same number of documents as is in the database, but i cannot click send in word (except to internet fax) as the email bit is greyed out.I was expecting the document to be started as an e-mail merge document, which the venue managers would then already have the correct template, put on the details they wish to send and then click finish mail merge and send documents.
I have a word document that has three fields in it (First Name, Last Name, Date) plus a page of common text (text that remains the same for everyone). I want my vb.net project to open the word document, and use the data from a listview (the listview has three columns: First Name, Last Name, Date) to fill in fields in the word document (doing a mail merge so that each row in the listview produces a new page in the document, with the corresponding First Name, Last Name, Date.
I'm editing a vb.net app for a mate and part of the requirements are to copy merge fields from one word document to another. I can copy them across using document.content.text but they come out as text (should've figured this i guess). I think i've got them selected by:
I'm trying to develop a Mail Merge using Bookmarks in a word template (1 page doc). It works ok for the 1st record from a datatable (source of data for bookmarks), and then just piles the other records into the same bookmarks. After the 1st insertion I need the code to goto the end of the doc, insert a page break and append a fresh copy of the template for the next insertion. The mail merge could have many 1 page letters in it.
strTemplateDir = Trim(txtDocument.Text) wrdApp = CreateObject("Word.Application") wrdApp.documents.add(strTemplateDir) 'open new word doc based on template 'make it the active doc
I am trying to get data from an Oracle database into an already created Word template which has the fields and OLEDB link already set up in it. I've tried some of the ways i've seen on here but it always seems to come back to the same answer that it pops up a 'Confirm Data Source' window in Word and then fails to connect. Does anyone know why this is happening or have any other way of doing it?
I am using this editor for the users to enter their text in the database interface environment that will both load/save/show them what they are working on in the form and also mail-merge into a Word document waiting for the content. I can do the first step and it works well, but how do I get MS Word to recognize HTML as formatting instead of just merging in tags and text all as text?
The tool has two relevant properties: one to get just the text (no markup, i.e. no HTML) and one to get the full markup with HTML. Both of these are in text format (which I use for easy storage in the Database).
ideas/directions I can think of:
1) use the clipboard. I can copy/paste the content straight from the editor window to Word and it works great! But loading from a database is significantly different, even when using the clipboard programatically. (maybe I don't understand how to use the clipboard tools)
2) maybe there is a library or class/function in Word that can understand the HTML as "mergable" content?
im having difficulty trying to do mail merge with ms word with dataset. i've tried google to search and i can't find the right solution. with little knowledge in mail merge, i only managed to do this:
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the code above will open the document file, merge with 1st record only. what i need is open the template document, but have multiple records. let me give a scenario, i need to print out 10 letters for 10 people, the information in the letter is exactly the same except the name and address. but this should only open 1 word document with multiple records in it, how can i achieve that? then i can print the letter for 10 times with different records.
I have an sql database with client email addresses.I need to send out reminders at certain dates that vary per client. Is there a way for me to draw only the clients that need to receive the reminders out of the database and then send an email to each one of them?From what I have found so far, it looks like I can set up the smtp fairly easily.I just don't know how to get the client's that I need and then cycle through each one.
I have multiple <body> tags from an word document. I do this with the open xml sdk. So the new document should generated with openxml The body's comes from
I have so different body's in a list. With al different values. Changed some text in the xml. And saved them in a new list. Now must that list in an new word document. How can i do that? I tried altChunk. But my word document is always corrupt.
how to edit and print mail merged document in vb.net (windows app) i have written the code to open the mail merged document but after the end user edited i want to print the document also.
I would like to perform a mail merge between VB.net 2005 and Word 2007 using a dataset from my application, so the user doesn't have to touch word they will just be presented with the mail merged data. I have already created my connection to SQL server and populated the dataset but how can I output the dataset to Word.
In Win7, I am running a service which launches a process which hosts the office-library (Word 2007) for the purpose doing a mail-merge. There is no interface anywhere. When I launch the mail-merge process with the service as the parent, Word cannot create a document using my existing mail-merge Word doc. At first I thought the problem was with UAC so I changed the manifest to run as admin but it seems like that was irrelevant. When I launch the process from explorer or a non-service process instead of the service it works and is able to load Word and a document successfully. I used Process Monitor to see if I could get some clues as to what could be happening. As far as I can tell, when the proc is launched by the service it is using system profile since I see file paths such as c:windowssystem32configsystemprofile and c:windows mp instead of my user profile folders C:UsersUserNameAppDataRoamingApplication etc. My service is running as my username and not localsystem. I check the username using WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name and I get my correct username regardless of service/non-service invocation. I tried changing the Word startup path in the Application object but again it only succeeds in non-service mode. I tried creating the process from the service in both shell mode and non-shell mode and they both behave similarly. I think the problem could lie in the fact that when the proc is launched by the service the user belongs to NT Authority/Service but when launched any other way it is NT
I've got a Word doc with insertion fields already created and an Excel spreadsheet with the data for a mail-merge.Does anyone have a code snippet for merging the two into a Word form-letter in VB.net?
I'm having some difficulty merging multiple word documents together using Microsoft Office Interop Assemblies (Office 2007) and ASP.NET 3.5. I'm able to merge the documents, but some of my formatting is missing (namely the fonts and images).
I've searched for this everywhere, but can't find a solution after trying for two days. What I want to accomplish is creating a table in Word (n-rows, and 3 cols,) (which I successfully have) and for each row that has a new date, I want to merge all three column cells just for that one row with the date. For every other row, above and below, I still want to preserve the 3 columns structure. What happens with the Merge() method is that all the rows merge, not just the row I'm currently on. I did a macro and noticed that there is a Selection.MoveRight() option I can do, but I can't yet figure out how to put all these statements together to accomplish this. When I do the MoveRight, trying many variants like the following:
I have a program in which I am trying to do the mail merge with the word template that I already have.
I have already setup the datasource for the word template in the word itself and it is pointing to my Employee Table which has all the information for the employee. I have also inserted the merge fields in the document where ever I need them. Now I want to print the document (Letter) with all the merge fields filled in from my application but for only employee whose Name or Number I sent from my program not all the employees I have in the datasource.
Now if I have to do it in Word, we have an option called Find Recipient in Mailings -> Preview Results in which I can set the Name or Number of the employee to get all his information to do the merge but how can I do the same thing from my program.
I can send all the fields values from my code like in the code below but I want to use my datasource to provide values. I have employee's Number I want to provide to the template to find the employee - so all the values are filled based on the employee's Number.
I used to take the word count of many document by using the microsoft com component But the problem is used to open a document and and take wordcount and close it .This process take long time as i have to open a winword and kill the winword for a document .Can any one fine tune my code so that it would make the process much more faster than mine
Public Class WordCount Dim appWord As Word.Application = New Word.Application Dim aDoc As Word.Document
I have a console application that asks the user to press number 5 to close the application. but i don't know what code to put so when the users press 5 the console application just closes?
I have a console application that lists all files in a folder and then deletes them![code]This code lists the hole path to the file, but i only want that the filenames are shown (not the path)!And i also want the console window to close after 5 seconds. How do i specify that.. Haven't found any answers anywhere!
I'm writing a console Application in VB.NET. I give user a list of menus to choose from and the last one is Enter 'Q' to quit. what command will actually close the console window.
I have an VB.Net Console Application running and I do not want it to close when the user hit the ENTER button, rather I want it to close when they type EXIT and then press ENTER. What should I do?
I'm writing a function that takes a word doc and returns the number of pages in it. I have the function working and returning pages except that it opens a Word dialog asking if I want to save changes - does anyone know how to stop this? I have the document running "silently" in the background so I don't want to spoil the feel by prompting for saves.Here is my code:
Private Function CountWordPages(ByRef Doc As String) As Integer Dim oWord As Object Dim WD_Doc As Word.Document Dim intCount As Integer = 0
I'm creating a simple word processor for class but I'm having some trouble on the close button. The Close button is supposed to close the file that the user is working on but not the word processor itself. How would I go about closing the document that the user is working on?
Here is what I have so far: Private Sub CloseToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles CloseToolStripMenuItem.Click Dim intfile As Object rtbDocument.Text = "" FileClose(intfile) End Sub
This gives me an error message "Option Strict On disallows implicit conversions from 'Object' to 'Integer'." When I'm not using Option Strict On the code seems to work but VS gives me a warning message, "Variable 'intfile' is used before it has been assigned a value. A null reference exception could result at runtime. I'm not sure what value to assign the 'intfile' Object.
